Darryl Core appeals from his conviction and sentence on one count of
promoting prostitution, a fourth-degree felony.
{¶ 2} In two related assignments of error, Core challenges the legal sufficiency and
manifest weight of the evidence to sustain his conviction. The record reflects that a jury
convicted Core of violating R.C. 2907.22(A)(2), which provides that no person shall More...

State of Tennessee v. Jerica Elizabeth Taylor
COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE

This case relates to the December14, 2014 robbery of William Majano. At the trial, the victim, a native of El Salvador, testified with the aid of a certified court interpreter that he had lived in Davidson County for eleven or twelve years. The victim said that he had known the Defendantas Jessica and for about three months at the time of the robbery. He said that they met in September 2014, wh... More...

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United States of America v. Donald Clifton Allen, Jr.
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Defendant Donald Clifton Allen, Jr., a self-proclaimed reality TV
star, thought that his television show about his life was going to make him rich. Instead, Allen
was convicted by a jury for prostitution and child pornography offenses and sentenced to 300
months in prison. He now challenges the denial of his motion to suppress evidence found during
the search of an apartment where ... More...

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Desmond Jerel Veal v. The State of Texas

Appellant was charged by indictment with the offense of unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, a third degree felony. Appellant pleaded “not guilty,” and the case proceeded to trial. At the conclusion of the trial, the jury found Appellant guilty of unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon as charged in the indictment, and assessed Appellant’s punishment at eight years of imprisonment. ... More...

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Christopher Steven Painter v. The State of Texas
Man arrested for sex assault of a disabled person

In Appellant’s first issue, he argues that the evidence is insufficient to sustain his conviction because there was insufficient evidence to prove that Appellant used force or that the victim was unable to comprehend or resist the assault. In his second issue, Appellant contests the constitutionality of Section 22.011(b)(4) of the Texas Penal Code, which he argues is unconstitutional both on its ... More...

A jury in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi has convicted two individuals of Transporting a Victim from Georgia to Mississippi to engage in prostitution. Following a two day trial in Oxford, Mississippi, a jury convicted Mario D. Collins of M... More...

$0 (12-27-2017 - MS)

United States of America v. Jaboree Williams
Eastern District of Wisconsin Federal Courthouse - Milwaukee, Wisconsin

For the third time, we are called upon to assess the legality of the President’s efforts to bar over 150 million nationals of six designated countries1 from entering the United States or being issued immigrant visas that they would ordinarily be qualified to receive. To do so, we must consider the statutory and constitutional limits of the President’s power to curtail entry of foreign nationals in... More...

$0 (12-22-2017 - HI)

In re Patti J. Wagner, as Guardian of Jenny Wagner, an Incapacitated Adult

Real parties in interest, Four J’s Community Living Center, Inc. (“Four J’s) and Anthonia Uduma (“Uduma”), have filed motions for rehearing and for en banc reconsideration of our April 27, 2017 opinion. We deny the motion for rehearing, but withdraw our opinion and issue the following opinion in its stead. Because we issue a new opinion in connection with the denial of rehearing, the motion for en... More...

Sometime after 11:00 p.m., Walter Ortiz Gonzalez, an employee of the InTown Suites
hotel, received a telephone call from a guest, who was concerned about a “little girl” running
around in the building. Upon investigation, Mr. Gonzalez saw a little girl running around in the
building and climbing on the third floor balcony. Mr. Gonzalez stated he did not see an adult with
the ... More...

Christian Don’Tae Hood, 25, was convicted by a federal jury in August 2017 of sex trafficking of a minor and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of a minor. On the first day of trial, Hood’s co-defendant Abdul Bangura, 20, pleaded guilty to, among other offenses, sex trafficking of a minor a... More...

Katherine Dunn was assaulted on December 6, 2014, in the trailer she lived in on
Murdock Road. Following the assault, Dunn knocked on the door of a house down the street
from the trailer, and the neighbor called 911. The neighbor relayed to Dunn questions posed by
the 911 operator about what had occurred, and Dunn responded that she had been stabbed and
“some black guy” beat ... More...

$0 (11-30-2017 - TX)

Sheldon G. Adelson v. David A. Harris, Marc R. Stanley and National Jewish Democratic Council
Second Circuit Court of Appeals - New York, New York

Familiarity with the facts of this case, as set forth in this
court’s decision in Adelson v. Harris, 774 F.3d 803 (2d Cir. 2014), is
assumed. This case involves defamation claims brought by
Appellant Sheldon Adelson against Appellees National Jewish
Democratic Council, its Chair, Marc Stanley, and its President and
CEO, David Harris. Appellant’s claim of defamation is based onMore...

$0 (11-29-2017 - NY)

STATE OF UTAH v. JOSHUA MARTIN
Utah Supreme Court

The State tried Mr. Martin on four counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, a first-degree felony, for sexually abusing his sisters-in-law A.L. and N.L. while occupying “a position of special trust in relation to” them. UTAH CODE § 76-5-404.1(4)(h). ¶ 7 At trial, A.L. testified that Mr. Martin had touched her vagina on four different occasions while he was supervising her; N.L. testified tha... More...

$0 (11-26-2017 - UT)

Hossein Shahbazian v. City of Rancho Palos verdes

Governments speak. They also petition. And they act in
ways that are neither speaking nor petitioning. It is important to
distinguish between the three, because Code of Civil Procedure
section 425.16 (section 425.16) may apply to the first two, but not
the third.
This case concerns whether the City of Rancho Palos
Verdes properly issued a permit for a fence separating twoMore...

$0 (11-25-2017 - CA)

United States of America v. Jose Velazquez
Middle District of Pennsylvania Federal Courthouse - Scranton, Pennsylvania

Scranton, PA - Monroe County Man Sentenced To 17 ½ Years In Prison For Heroin And Sex Trafficking

Jose Velazquez, age 27, was sentenced on November 17, 2017 to 17 ½ years in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, for participating in a heroin trafficking conspiracy that stretched from Stroudsburg to New York to the state of Maine, and forcing or coercing women into engage... More...

$0 (11-23-2017 - PA)

Hossein Shahbazian v. City of Rancho Palos Verdes

Governments speak. They also petition. And they act in
ways that are neither speaking nor petitioning. It is important to
distinguish between the three, because Code of Civil Procedure
section 425.16 (section 425.16) may apply to the first two, but not
the third.
This case concerns whether the City of Rancho Palos
Verdes properly issued a permit for a fence separating twoMore...

$0 (11-22-2017 - CA)

Stedman Payne v. The State of Texas
Man faces prison time after forcing girl into prostitution

The complainant, M.W., a sixteen-year-old girl, texted with appellant after
meeting on an online dating website. M.W. informed appellant that she was a senior
in high school. Through text messages and social media, appellant recruited M.W.
to prostitute herself and have him as her pimp. M.W., a prior victim of human
trafficking, told appellant that she had done escorting before... More...

$0 (11-20-2017 - TX)

United States of America v. David D. Delay
Western District of Washington Federal Courthouse - Seattle, Washington

Seattle, WA - Seattle Area Man Convicted of 17 Federal Felonies for Scheme to Exploit Young Women and Juveniles in Prostitution - Defendant Posed as Documentary Filmmaker to Entice and Blackmail Women into Commercial Sex Activity

A 51 year-old Seattle-area man was convicted on November 8, 2017 in U.S. District Court in Seattle of 17 federal felonies for his scheme to recruit young women a... More...

$0 (11-09-2017 - WA)

United States of America v. David D. Delay
Western District of Washington Federal Courthouse - Seattle, Washington

Seattle, WA - Seattle Area Man Convicted of Multiple Counts of Sex Trafficking by Force, Fraud, or Coercion, Sex Trafficking of a Minor, and Production of Child Pornography

A 51 year-old Seattle-area man was convicted of 17 federal felonies on November 6, 2017 in the U.S. District Court in Seattle for his scheme to recruit young women and girls and force them to engage in prostitutionMore...

$0 (11-07-2017 - WA)

Veronica Trevino v. The State of Texas
TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

Trevino was arrested during a sting operation conducted by the Austin Police
Department (APD) in the Rundberg Lane area of Austin, Texas. As part of the operation, Officer
Baldemar Ortiz, wearing plain clothes and driving an unmarked car through the area, spotted a
woman, later identified as Trevino, walking on the sidewalk. According to his testimony at trial,
Office Ortiz honke... More...

$0 (11-04-2017 - TX)

United States of America v. Lawrence T. Gunn
United States District Court for the Southern District of California - Santa Ana, California

A pimp, known by the moniker “Classified,” who recruited approximately 20 women and girls through a social media website and advertised their services as prostitutes in an online publication, was sentenced yesterday to 15 years in prison for sex trafficking ... More...